King Naemon knew that Valewood had been rocked by the recent Hammerfell attack . The redguard had sallied across the river from the City of Anvil, and with the assistance of the orcish forces had taken Vulkwastern in a sudden attack. They had brought forth two army groups , one of which was mainly a cavalry army which forted up south of Vulkwastern , the other a foot army consisting mainly of speartroops. The forest hummed as the message echo'd around the woods , the message that the forest was underthreat , were soon heard throughout the land , carried perhaps by the very forest itself. Naemon knowing that Bosmer need was great , knew the woodland roads , would have to be kept clear and there would be incovience for the bosmer forces nearby. So he left his main force, took a small force of elite troopers and joined with Hirtel who had marched south, to attack some rebels who had camped around the mainroad to Eldenroot.

It took ages for the two forces to move jointly on there target , guilded by the rangers who moved suddenly thought the mighty forest , as if it was nothing . The joint altmeri forces coordinated their forces with help from the ever present bosmer ranger forces, to surround the rebels who's encampment had blocked Eldenroots main route northwards. Whilst the rebel bosmer swordsmen slept , the two forces attacked, in a sudden surge, there swordsmen flooding into the woodland camp. Most of the rebels were soon cut down taken by surprise, cut down in there ramshackle bedding or tents , but some of the rebels had slept in the trees ,and were able to prepare themselves for combat.

Trying to remove these lone rebels in the trees above, proved harder than they had thought , as they were in familiar terrain and the altmeri were not comfortable fighting in the tall trees , but aided by the few bosmers rangers they had who putdown some excellent sniping .Slowly and methodically , the altmeri forces took the trees, branch by branch , removing all rebel forces and although there casualties laid in the hundred or so, they soon had the road cleared of interferance.

As the wounded were treated Naemon conferred with Hirtel , and they agree to resiege the last southern fort of the jade dragoons , which would free the bosmer forces for there defence of there realm. Agreement was soon found and messenges were sent also to the bosmer high command, and then the two altmeri commanders moved to respective commands to resume the march back to the forts , deep within the forest.

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The hammerfell diplomate , stood in the recently captured town of Vulkwastern , satisfied that the bosmer people were truly under the thumb of the hammerfell forces . Those same forces hurried to make the defences of the town, suitable to resist a counterattack which was sure to come. He looked around , and received the hateful gazes from the residence of the town , who naturally resented the occupation . Moving more quickly to avoid the bosmer , he proceeded to quicken his pace back to his quarters, when he looked over his shoulder thinking that someone was following him. His sense of dread was somewhat relieved when he reached the inn , the hammerfell command staff had taken over , and soon reached his room, where he breathed easier , secure within the hammerfell held territory .

He removed his coat , and moved towards his bed , when he felt a sharp stabbing pain, as a blade hit him low in the back . The assassins hand quickly covered his mouth , to prevent a scream , and with a slow light groan he was lowered to the floor , as his life slipped away. The head of the diplomate was found later the next morning hanging from the inns sign , with a note "Beware intruders! You enter the valenwood , You cannot stop the bosmer people from taking what is ours, Fear our Uprising!"

i'll give narsil one more day..i have sent him both steam message & TWC email to tell him what has been going on..but no reply as yet...I will do a "reserve" turn ...and if there is no answer from narsil tomorrow..i will sub him until he is clear what he wants to do..

Vulkwasten was suddenly attacked without warning in the early hours of the day. Redguard attacked with a horde of spearmen attacking the side of the settlement and a host of cavalry, which looped around the settlement preventing the population from escaping. The dawn light brought little help as the redguard foot troops , using the advantage of the new day, and the slight ground mist which formed as it often did in forest areas, obscured the redguard speartroops as they broke into the town and formed small battlegroups which decended on the town.

The defenders fought treehouse by treehouse , the heights giving them some advantages of terrain, the redguard were unfamilar in such branches of the high trees. Swordfights[or should I say spearfights] echo'd throughout the town, as the redguard , went building by building, storming the town slowly from the west ,taking the majority of the town , as there cavalry raced up and down the streets , running down any bosmer trooper [or civilian] who dared to fight[or move] in the open and on the ground.

The Vulkwasten Fighters Guildhall proved a rallying point for the defenders and most of the bosmer troops fell back to defend this last critical position . The sudden grouping of forces at this point proved a effective bulwark against the hammerfell attacks for a good hour or so, and there forces grew , as the demoralised bosmer found themselves surrounded . The superior archery retaliation from the troops on the roof of the guildhall , had a easy field on view on there movements of there enemies and many of there attacks , were broken , by severe arrow wounds/kills before they got near to even threaten the position.[The mist started to dissipate after a little while making things easier for the defenders]

Prince Gelthior had made it to the last stand , were all the remaining forces were organised, and rallied his troops . He knew that news would soon reach Silvenar , that Vulkwasten was under attack and they would send support , if only the could holdout for the day. The guild was situated on a elevated branch of one of the great trees and there was also excellent shootings position from the overhanging branches ,allowing them to fire at the backs of the hammerfell troops, as they attempted to combat the defenders of the town and take the guildhouse. But he felt his knees suddenly give way beneath him , and he sunk to the ground , fellow bosmer troops gathered round him , and lowered him to the ground, removing the arrow which had taken him in the back, which left him without the use of his legs. Two of the bosmer troopers soon formed a rough stretcher, and lifted the dying prince into the safety of the guildhouse , as the last company of bosmer troops prepared to make a stand to hold here .

The redguard generals soon had regrouped and a host of there command staff rode in just below the guildhouse , to coordinate against, what was the last stand of resistance of the town. Gathering together near five hundred spears , they unleashed them in a sudden action , and there was not the time or the arrows to stop the massive brigade before it reached the guildhall, and bloody hand to hand became the order of the day. Bosmer archers ,soon ran out of arrows and drawing twin daggers , hurled themselves into the hammerfell forces from there elevated positions but all was for naught , as the superior numbers systematically took the defenders down one by one forcing the town under hammerfell control.

King Aeridan , observed the forces of Prince Einrel, as they lined up in the narrowness of the valley, with the valenwood swordsmen at the front , it was clear that it was shaping up to be a frontal assault . The forces of the Jade Dragoons , had exited the fort , to confront there hated foes in the field, knowing there was little place left to run and likewise had formed a solid front line of armoured swordsmen. With a yell and a cry , the valenwood swordsmen , flung themselves at a foe , so hated that even the young , were reminded of there misdeeds as , if you dont behave , the jade dragoons will get you. Seeing the charging bosmer troops , the frontline of the jade dragoons likewise charged and the two foes , smashed into each other , and fought with a fury bordering on insanity, with there need to kill each other.

The king observed the frontline dispassionately from his command post , as he took in the troops performance from both sides, the bosmer fought well , and the quickness of their attacks had initially driven the dragoons back, but the more heavily armoured dragoons in their plate armour slowly drove the bosmer back to regain the line, and those bosmer who tried to hold there ground , were often pummelled by the heavier shield of the dragoons[being cramped in formation they couldn't dodge], and the forward marching dragoons trampled those who fell.

The frontline of the bosmer slowly began to be driven back up the valley , as the much heavier armoured troops began to inflict greater casualties on the much lighter armoured troops of the Valenwood. The dragoons could absorb lesser strikes on their armour , for the benefit of inflicting a greater returning blow , producing a more critical wound in response to the lighter armoured elfs. Slowly the morale of the bosmer troops was lowered as the rear ranks saw there foes, cut down the bosmer after bosmer at the front whilst having little damage inflicted on them in return. The King stroked his beard considering the situation, and spoke to a nearby messenger , who moved down to the rear of the first army and spoke to Prince Einrel delivering his message.

"The king reminds you , that the Bosmer , have a more traditional method of fighting , he hopes his kin ,....remembers his history."

Prince Einrel considered the words and nodded in understanding , the messenger returned to the king , to say his words had been passed on , whilst the prince ordered a slight withdrawal of his troops and the combat was suddenly broken up as the Valenwood troops slowly disengaged and moved back to there lines . The Jade dragoons withdrew a little and rested , as fighting in the heavy armour , was draining there endurance . Some lifted visors and chattered with there fellows about there success's in battle and the number of kills or near misses they have suffered whilst the Prince in the other army gave new commands, changing there bosmer line of battle. The sub-commanders had returned to the prince army and it was moved into three distinct lines of troops , all with hand weapons and some with bows, others had twin daggers which shone brightly under the sun which pierced the valleys curtain of overhanging trees .

A horn blew out across the valley and the first line of bosmer troops raced forward, with a fair proportion hanging back , so that only perhaps a third of the troops from the firstline engaged the steel plated wall of the dragoons. The King observed with satisfaction , that the tactics had changed, as the bosmer troops closed with a target , hitting in small groups , takening on a foe or two , dashing in for quick stabs , and then withdrawing , behind them a second wave of the line had charged in to take there place . Then another formed a third wave [all from the first line of the army]. The command structure of the dragoons was confused to the new tactics, as they couldnt bring there main strength to bear , in this war of lighting strikes , as they were suited for heavy melee.

Soon the entire first army line collected back together and withdrew throught the lines of the princes army , back thru the second line , and third , and moved to the rear to reassemble ,as the front troops of the second line raised there bows , some knelt at the very front , with others behind standing to shoot and perform a quick and damaging volley into the knights, before they like the first line broke into three smaller waves, each charging at the enemy in there turn. The dragoons perhaps suffered some little damage from the lethal missile strike , but little from hand to hand fighting , but their endurance , was being drained from them as they had to defend against wave after wave of bosmer troops , inflicting little damage , as the cat-quick bosmer with space on the field to move, dodged or avoided the heavier weapon strikes of the dragoons.

This tactic continued for a good thirty minutes without letup , keeping the now exhausted knights rooted to the spot , until seeing the advantage the king moved his entire army group into place behind them reading to support, and after another round of skimishing from the princes army had taken place, the kings army was now moved to the front rank.

Horns blew and the entirety of the kings army now charged the Dragoons , who with little energy left , could not contain them . The lighter bosmer , forced there way , through the centre of there line , with the mass of hundreds behind them . Dragoons tried to lift shields to block blows , and stumbled on the now muddy fields , some dragoons fell into the morass of the earth and suffocated in the mud , which was created by the field of warriors. Some dragoons with more endurance than most, broke and ran for the gate of the fort , the gate opened , and the horde of bosmer , stormed into the camp behind them , seemingly the battle was won.

Prince Einrel looked up at King Aeradan and asked him what they should do with the prisoners, and the king of the Bosmer turned to face him.

"They have taken life from the forest , and so it shall be returned! There is to be no mercy for these butchers! Find General Endare alive though and have him brought before me in chains for interrogation...."

The Bosmer commanders around the king ,saluted and the order , was given , Jade dragoons fell , some to arrows , others to knifes to their throats , and soon many littered the camp , which now slightly smoking from campfires which had been extinguished by the Bosmer to prevent damage to the forest. Supply caches and wagons had been taken from the altmeri forces at the king's order , as the bosmer armies , reformed and readied themselves , for their march to the northwest...

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The Mane of khajiit, Aran Akhuz-Ri, received reports about the imperial activity to the east , and the argonians advancements in the blackmarsh, as the intelligence service of the khajiit peoples sent forth there field reports. The army of the khajit peoples had been depleted from the recent attack at Ein against the daedra, but was steadily recovering its previous heights , but the speaker had advised a slight change to the miltary forces , making a harder and more experienced army to be formed from the new recruits . Merchants flourished in the lands of Elswyr , and trade between dyes, spices , moonsugar , weapons , and other raw materials which had excelled in production , several of the merchants had asked for permits to move out of the homelands ,to complete trades between the other peoples of the empire. Thus many small caravan groups were being madeup in Torval to begin there voyages all over Tamriel.

Communication between the bosmer and the altmeri was to be improved , and various diplomates had departed from Torval , to travel to the dominion partners, to further links between the allies. There was still great concern , as the khajiit wished to take control of the Torpal Bay , [so called after Torpal the Pilot, who the bay is named after] but there was still the undead forces , and the great fleets of the empire , had yet to face , and also the argonians from the blackmarsh to try ,and counter. But the ties of the dominion were still strong , as they were bound in one purpose , to now take control of what was left of the empire's estates in there orbit.

[Statue of Topal The Pilot located in Leyawiin, Cyrodiil]

The ever mounting paperwork began to make the Mane frustrated, as ever more reports were brought into his room in the capital city. He decided that enough was enough , and took out his Chillum pipe , and grabbed a nearby wooden bowl which contained some Yidjeme [sweet, bright, spicy yet mild flavour , breed of tobacco ] which he added as a small sample to his pipe , lighting it, he took a few pulls of breath to start the pipeweed glowing in the dim light of the room , and sat back , thinking of quieter days. Calling for his servants , he told them he would retire to the Sugarcane gardens which surrounded the Palace , to seek further meditation of what decisions , he should make. The servants bustled away , summoning the Cathay-raht[A large jaguar like breed of khajiit, fast,& agile which made excellent light infantry warriors] to bring his palanquin. Whilst he was in the gardens he would soon have peace, at least for a while , as the gardens were protected by fierce warriors and considered holy to the Khajiit, and tales told of even Emperors being forced to wait , and forbidden to enter....

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Razum-dur rallied his khajiit troopers and they sallied out from the fort , in the valenwood , to join with King Naemon's altmeri to besiege the last remaining fort of the jade dragoons , in the valenwood. He avoided meeting with HighKing , and made a point of snubbing his correspondence , at any chance he had ,whilst still carrying out the dominions orders. Khajiit troopers fell into the prepared siegelines that the altmeri swordsmen had made for themselves , to take up there share of the load , but Razum longed to return to Elsweyr, to collect a greater force , to bring some measure of personal vengeance on the hammerfell peoples, but that was something for the future , perhaps.....

King Naemon lead the charge as the dominion troops attacked the last remaining fort of the jade dragoons. Morale of the Dragoon troops was low , as they had seen their main strength and leadership annihilated in the battle to the north by massive bosmer forces. Altmeri and khajiit troops pushed there rams into the wooden fort , receiving the odd burst of misslefire , but the dragoon's arrow supplies were running low , and soon the defensive firepower soon dried up , leaving the defences to troops , throwing rocks and lumber down on the assaulting troops .

Casualties' were light for the attackers until breach points had been made , the dominion troops flooded into the fort , and the defences of the jade dragoon troops stiffened with hand to hand fighting favouring the heavier armoured defenders .

Naemon eager to prove his new status , eagerly entered into the fighting, his superior training making it difficult for his foes to land any hits. Dancing and stabbing , blocking and slashing , he cut his way through many of the dragoons , and the altmeri rallied to his advance. Thirty minutes later , the fort , was silent apart from the cries of the wounded, the dominion forces put away there weapons , checking the bodies on the ground ,for any wounded of either side. Mercy was not a factor at the end of this battle, and none was given to the dragoons , as the altmeri couldn't afford any misunderstanding with there allies , in showing any clemency to the wayward altmeri jade dragoons.

At the end of the battle , Naemon gave over the command of the remaining altmeri troops to Hirtel , Kinlord of Dusk and rode with a small bodyguard to Eldenwood , to ready himself for the important ceremony to prove his authority over the dominion.

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Sincantor and Vorandil were two altmeri generals who had arrived with there forces near the port of Woodhearth . Once a old imperial port during the first empire , it had rapidly been reclaimed by the bosmer nation , who had started to built there traditional houses in keeping with the green pact. A altmeri messenger had arrived on horseback sent back from the forces engaging the jade dragoons.

"Your aid is requested at ultmost speed as the hammerfell forces have marched against Vulkwasten and even now push ever onwards into the forest. The Bosmer King calls for troops to attack the flank of the daggerfall covenant attack!", replied the messenger siting on his still sweating horse which shivered as the cold of the day , hit it.

The two generals huddled low together and quickly discussed the situation, both quickly coming to some resolution of what to do. Vorandil returned to the messenger , who was still waiting, whilst he controlled his ever energetic horse who struggled with its reins.

"The time has come.....We march north!. Tell the king , to look for our arrival in the west.", replied Vorandil , as the messenger saluted and turned the horse around , riding into the distance.

The horns of the altmeri armies blew out in the days wind, as the troops readied themselves to depart camp , to join the struggle against the hammerfell forces in the valenwood.

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The forces of Hammerfell advanced deep into the valenwood , striking at the bosmer forces in and around the outskirt of Abamath , where a small wood-orc settlement had been started around the ancient ruins of a Ayleid settlement. The orcs had deserted there homes , in the first round of combat against the dominion but the hammerfell forces had struck out to perhaps regain this settlement for the wood-orcs who had provided some scouts for the redguard forces to find there way , in these deep woods.

Thoda the redguard commander of the forces of hammerfell used hit and run tactics on the two bosmer forces [commanded by Anglith & Rolon]. The desert peoples of Alik'r were happy to conduct a skirmish type of warfare , drawing out the garrison of the town , damaging them , retreating and then regrouping to do the same again. The unfortunate garrison and accompanying force was made of ground troops who didn't have adequate bowmen to contest with the ever increasing damaging fire, inflicted upon them by the harassing forces .

Time and time again they were lured into the forest to seek combat , only to find the hammerfell forces slinking away. There was casualties on both sides as sometimes , the bosmer forces had the occasional small success in ambushing a hammerfell battalion, but in the most part ,hammerfell forces appeared to be winning this battle of attrition.

After a week of these skirmishing attacks , the hammerfell forces were reinforced by another force lead by Rawan which provided another thousand men, This force was equipped by some ballista artillery, and the forces from the desert, changed there tactics from skirmish to a sudden assault on the city, with the garrison worn down from the previously fortnight of attacks ,it fell quickly after the walls were breached by the artillery.

The victory at the first battle of Abamath , spread quickly through the forest , and King Burz [he had taken the throne after King Kurog gro-Orsinium had perished in the north against the fierce nordic warriors] lead his remaining forest orcs, to perhaps support the hammerfell forces and perhaps regain his homeland after there long stay in the western coastline.

The Second battle of Abamath started a month later , as the bosmer King , Aeradan , had just finished the battle with the jade dragoons , to the west of Eldenroot and had marshalled most of his strength to annihilate the heavily armoured altmeri rebels. After fighting against the main force, commanded by there leader , he left the remainder of the Dragoons to his allies , the altmeri and the khajiit, whilst he moved his main strength to reinforce his central territories. His forces camped a little south of Abamath whilst his scouts searched out the situation at the captured town and surrounding area.

The scouts reported that the Hammerfell forces had made a wooden fort to the southeast of the town to slowdown any push from bosmer forces and the wood-orcs under there king, had moved closer tothe captured town , hoping to mutually support it , with his heavy foot. Bosmer scouts had reported a slight garrison still remained at Vulkwasten , at a sufficient strength to make a good defence but perhaps not enough to prove a threat with a counterattack. Communication between the King, Silvenar and the other army generals that marched with the bosmer king were quickly established and a rough plan of action was made .

King Aeradan lead the way, with the counterattack against the daggerfall covenant,as he mobilised his force first, and using hidden pathways, within the forest , his army flowed rather than clambered over the rough terrain of the deep forest. Moving north and then north-westwards , the army of the king bypassed the fort that the hammerfell garrison had constructed to deter their foe, and swept southwest to besiege the old orc forest town of Abamath. Sweeping down from the north , a force of bosmer commanded by the Silvenar , had left the settlement to the north ,to pin the orcs in place whilst they fought. With the town of Abamath under siege only a small force of hammerfell troops would be able to support the orcs who were now forced to fight against a large bosmer army.

The scene was set for perhaps the most important battle yet in the southwest , where the fifthteen hundred heavy armed orcs under there now King Burz, was helped by a fair amount of significant orcish lords. Makhug gro-Drublog [Chief of Clan Drublog], Doshkul gro-Barkbite[Chief of clan barkbite], Gorzesh gro-Lhurgash [Chief of Lhurgash], stood with the last of there clans, the last remenants of the forest orcs of the southwest. There was also two other orcish warlords in Ulukhaz gro-Drublog and Nagoth[who had held the title of lord of Vulkwastern for a shortwhile], who also had brought there own bodyguard to field.

Hammerfell was well represented in the battle although there force was small but prominent in name, with Rawan [Lord of Fort Sunkeep] leading the four squadrons of heavy cavalry ,with Kaneron al-Taneth[King of Taneth], Khorshad [Lord of Satakaleem] and another general present on the field.

The one eye orc king , Burz observed the forces of the Silvenar , and thought they had even odds, as his troops were bloodied and experienced in battle, and certainly there heavier orcish armour provided them with some advantages. He had deployed his troops in tradtional formation as the heavy foot halberdiers spreadout to hold the center ,and the wood-orcs were behind the centre with there bows at the ready ,the abundant heavy infantry of the orcish bodyguard took the flanks. He readied his troops to perhaps make some skirmishing when the bosmer bowmen moved into range and then to hit them heavily with his heavy foot , keeping the hammerfell heavy cavalry as a last reserve .

He held his hand over near his one eye which still ached in the cold air, to take a look at the bosmer forces of the Silvenar which had seemed to finish deploying , its front line of valenwood archers had a mottled array of light and heavy infantry behind them and even some altmeri horsemen in reserve. Burz stroked his chin , thinking about his move , when he saw the valenwood archers began to mount there arrows to bows and unleashed a missle storm of arrows.

The missle storm swept over the halberdiers, which he thought be the target and dropped into the wood orcs , dropping some of there orc archers .Burz gripped his axe in frustration, knowing that shear range of the bosmer bows made a skirmish out of the question, and he raised his axe into the axe with a cry.

"Crunnnnnnnnnnnn!" ,he called at the top of his lungs , with his bodyguard echo'ing the call , which seemed to reverberate throughout the orc army.

Suddenly a giant deformed orc who had perhaps half-giant blood, answered the shout and spinning his weapon around in the air he began to charge the bosmer frontline , followed by the rest of the army , whilst the bosmer archers reloaded for another volley.

Thumm , went the sound of thousands of arrows as they descended on the attacking orcs , felling a good hundred or so , even with there great armour, but the rest of the orc line with the giant orc hit the bosmer frontline. The massive spinning timbers of the huge orc , swung round , killing and injurying scores of troops as the great weapon felled many, with the chains taking many from there feet. The frontline descended into melee , the valenwood archers being rapidly withdraw and the weaker dominion swordsmen takening the blow of the initial charge.

Many were hacked or battered from orcish shields and weapons , and many were crushed where they stood, but they were quickly reinforced by the superior valenwood swordsmen , who had been trained as elite warriors , lead by Edhelorn the Just personally, they solidified the line. The half-giant orc was targeted by the valenwood archers, who began to pin cushion his body with hundreds of arrows. The creature howled in anger , and barrelled through the mainline , scattering even the valenwood swordsmen , but four swordsmen still held there ground , fighting with unusual skill , keeping the creature busy on one axis or another until the weight of his wounds caused by repeated arrows and cuts bought him down.

Suddenly from the rear of the field , a bosmer warcry was shouted out, but some didn't hear the sound in heat of the combat, as another army of bosmer exited the woods , at the rear of the orc camp. Prince Einrel was eager to get his revenge for his kinsman, who had died at Vulkwastern and had bought the army of the southern bosmer north, passing by barkbite fortress and into the rear of the orcs line. Now all was chaos , as the orcs continued to fight, dispite the massive setback. The heroic hammerfell nobles charged into the sudden arrival of bosmer troops , some were pulled from there horses whilst many rode out wounding and killing many, only to regroup and recharge again at the swiftly moving Prince's army, as it closed the gap, pushing pass the camp to close with the orcish army, which was now close to being surrounded.

Burz hit out with his axe , catching a dominion swordsmen blade which deflected his heavy axe skyward , but the bosmer trooper had made a mistake as the orc king, lashed out with his other hand , punching the bosmer directly in the face. The bosmer swordsman , stunned by the surprise blow, fell backward to the ground , and Burz pulled back on his axe ,now with both hands and bought it down on the prostrate bosmer trooper , inflicting a mortal blow. Now he had a free moment to look back on the unfolding disaster, he made a quick decision and gathered a few of his nearby colleagues ,sending them out, to warn the notable clan chiefs, that they were going to strike out westwards, to see if they could breakout of the trap before it closed.

As the prince's army closed on the orcish army, a small detachment of massive orc lords ran westwards to escape the battle , many of there troops cried out , to see such a sight, as it was generally more honourable to find death on the field , than to leave, but Burz knew that more was at stake, with the entire southern clan leadership at risk. Edhelorn [the Silvenar] seeing the desperate move , sent the reserve dominion cavalry to intercept the orcish lords , as he knew the battle was now nearing its end , as the orcish line of battle dissolved into two weak lines as the orcs main force fought now back to back, as the princes army smashed into there rear.

"Tumn!,......Tumn!.......Tumn!........Tumn!" , cried the orc bodyguard who had elected to stay behind and cover the rear of there fleeing leaders , and there swiftly assembled battleline, was sufficient to holdback the dominion cavalry, which sought to break this last bastion of orcish resistance, which gave cover to the last of the forest orcs as they faded into the trees to the west.

Combat was suddenly intensified for a few minutes, as the last of the rearguard and the main orc army was overwhelmed with shear numbers , most falling with bloody wounds with a few dropping there weapons to surrender, were given a quick death.

Prince Einrel looked over the field of orcish and hammerfell dead , and felt a little respect in the prowess of there foe , but here indeed was a royal battlefield , with many of the orcish forces, had been diminished to such a extent , that he felt that finally the forest orcs had been broken, and would not rise to threaten the valenwood again. There was still one more enemy force at Vulkwastern to face, but he feared them not, with the might of the southern bosmer army at his back.Looking to side , to the forest edge of the battlefield , it gladdened him that the forest flowers still grew unhindered by the awful combat they had faced,........... it truly would be a Elven dawn of a new age for the Valenwood with the orcs removed.

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A messenger from King Aeradan arrived shortly after the battle had been resolved , where the two army groups were addressing the wounded and preparing the dead. The king was asking for aid against the town of Abamath itself, as he had received ballista artillery from the city of Silvenar, which would enable his army to take this city this week . Intelligence had told the king , that a few generals of worth were trapped in the town , Nal [Lord of Anvil] , Ranbiq[Lord of Abah's Landing] and 4 others which might be worth there weight in gold and intelligence if they could be taken alive, and time was of the essence.

Prince Einrel , knew that the Silvenar, Edhelorn's army was tired but he wanted to pursue and see if he could capture the retreating orcish remnants, as they still had some notable characters with them whilst his troops were still fresh. Considering the matter , he meet with the Silvenar, and both agree it was better if , Edhelorn's forces could support the King , in the assault of the City , whilst the Prince still had matters of his revenge to consider.

Turn done by Narsil [who is sorry for delay but he has had cpu problems][amendmum : Apparantely the fort , to the southeast of Abamath was taken with overwhelming odds with a ballista...I shall keep the description of the action thou..as it sounds okay ] Turn passed to Khajiit

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Arox'lai wondered what on the earth possessed him to enter the undead fort where the wormking had located . The fort had a permanate shadow cast upon by a dark overbearing cloud which hung in the sky casting a perpetual gloom over the location. Lucky enough, the Wormking had left with most of undead forces and moved to the north , which made the fort less forbidding without his presence and the cold chill he had felt before with his presence nearby had lessened. The fort only had a Necromancer with his followers and a large number of skeletons who patrolled the walls and where stationed within as a large reserve within just in case of battle.

He was notified by a carrier bird that At'hba would be attacking with a large force of khajiit troops on the morrow , and he swiftly gave a reply to avoid the bird from being noticed by the defenders of this fortress , as most of the birds and animals which moved around the terrain had departed , as soon as the undead had arrived and despoiled the countryside.

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There was little letup on the guard routines, as the skeleton troops being dead , did not need sleep or drinks or bathroom breaks , so he waited for when the khajiit army came into range, and then he bolted for the gates. Many skeletons noticed his sudden appearance , some began firing the odd arrows and others started to move towards him , as he rapidly disbarred the gate. Slowly he pushed the doors to the fort open wide as the first skeleton reached him. Whiping out his Mace , he dodged the slow swing of the skeleton's rusting sword and gave the skeleton a wide hit to the head, which sent the skull , flying through the air, as its body of bones collapsed to the ground.

A arrow caught him in the shoulder, as another skeleton moved towards him. Bending down he took a rusting shield , which had belonged to the skeleton he had felled and stood in the gateway , looking back as some of the Khajiit troopers now raced towards the open gate.But three skeletons had reached him first and many shuffled around on the fort walls trying to get a clear shot at him. Many times , he blocked the skeletons moves , and he was forced back as the repeated blows , echo'd in the forts surrounds , as he tried to stand his ground , against the undead menace .

Suddenly khajiit troopers were all around him , as they engaged the undead spearmen and started to push inwards into the fort, as the Necromancers roused the rest of the skeletons to throw back the intruders to there domain. But Aroz'lai moved himself out of the way before the press of troopers pushed him back inside the fort , as he collapsed outside against the outer wall of the fort, examining his wound .The khajiit forces pushed there way into the fort, and the sounds of fierce combat filled the air . He remembered, he must pass on some of the papers he had sneaked out of the wormkings lodgings, which he had taken at great risk, and give them to the khajiit commander ,was his last thought, before his head lulled to the side as he fell into unconsciousness.

The Undead were a formible foe , and were not deterred by fear , or by the khajiit numbers , there was no thoughts of morale , knowing there doom was upon them , with the massive khajiit numbers attacking them, all they followed was the commands of their necromantic masters, as they fought the foe in front of them. Necromancer Mages and apprentices had climbed the rear wall of the keep , and provided supportfire of magical flame and ice , which made the going rather hard for the weak Khajiit spearmen who trook the blunt of the casualties . The situation changed when At'hba arrived and coordinated some misslefire from the khajiits own archers which started to snipe and bring down the supporting skeleton archers and mages on the rear wall. After that the battle turned in there favour , as the shear numbers of khajiit troops pushed back the skeletons, to provide them with room and began to hack them to pieces , but a frustrated At'hba shook his head at the loss of Life , the regret that there attack was to slow , and that the Wormking had escaped there grasp for his crimes against there people.

Narsil has redone the battle...fighting against the outside hammerfell troops causing his armies to fight all of the armies at the same time for victory..Image shown below [I shall keep the RP as the result of the battles is the same ]